Furiously Enthused? Performing Identities, Encountering IMumbo-Jumbo: A UWC Case study

Abstract

In his lavishly illustrated collection, The Plays of Miracle and Wonder (2003), Brett Bailey tracks the genesis of the works anthologised and claims, Drama can be like ritual: an event that incorporates all people involved - performers and audience - and affecting everybody present at profound levels of consciousness (Bailey, 2003:19). This could explain the dramatic foregrounding of perceived tensions between cultural insiders and outsiders characterising responses to the 2003 re-run of Bailey's provocatively titled IMumbo Jumbo at Cape Town's Baxter Theatre.